Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation has been awarded a three-year initial term contract by BHP Billiton to provide charter services to its Jimblebar mine in Western Australia. The services will be operated by Network’s Fokker 100 aircraft between Perth and Newman from June 9. “The agreement demonstrates Qantas’s strength in the fly-in, fly-out business and affirms
Air New Zealand has announced it is ordering 13 Airbus A320neo aircraft, including no fewer than three A321neos, which will be used to operate trans-Tasman and Pacific Island services from late 2017. The order for 13 A320neos plus a single standard A320 to join the airline’s domestic fleet was announced by Air New Zealand CEO
Qantas has unveiled a specially marked QantasLink 717 to mark the transition from Qantas mainline to QantasLink operated services to Tasmania. In January Qantas announced plans transition its Melbourne and Sydney to Hobart services from mainline 737s and QantasLink Dash 8 Q400 turboprops to QantasLink 717s, which are operated on Qantas’s behalf under a contract
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight off the coast of Western Australia has been suspended after further analysis of what were thought to be pings from the aircraft’s black box flight data recorders. Reports indicate the analysis of the sonar signals by the US Navy has found it is likely the pings
Three of the four Saab 340 airliners operated by Vincent Aviation, which collapsed on May 28, are now in Townsville. Saab 340 VH-VNA ferried in to Townsville from Sydney and VH-VNU ferried to Townsville from Darwin on Wednesday evening, while VH-VNX was already in Townsville where it was undergoing maintenance with Aviex. A fourth Saab
Air New Zealand’s first Boeing 787-9 has made its maiden flight from Boeing’s Everett factory near Seattle. The first test flight – known as B1 and conducted by Boeing test pilots – took off from Everett at 1.45pm local on May 28 and landed three hours and 10 minutes later after reaching an altitude of
